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Applying a Template to an Existing Presentation
There's no commitment when selecting a design template in PowerPoint, because you can change to a different one any time. To do so, click the Design button on the Formatting toolbar; the Slide Design task pane reopens, and you can pick a different one.
You can apply different templates to different slides in the same presentation, if you like. To apply a design template only to certain slides, follow these steps:
Click the Design button to display the Slide Design task pane if it is not already displayed.
Select the slides that should have the different design template applied.
| Note | To select more than one slide, click the slides you want in the Slides pane (while holding down the Ctrl key), or select their text in the Outline pane, or switch to Slide Sorter and select them from there. |
Point to the desired template in the task pane; a down arrow appears to its right, as shown in Figure 2-7.
Click the down arrow to open a menu, and click Apply to Selected Slides.
| Note | When you switch to a different template after starting a presentation from a presentation template (with sample content), some of the graphics provided by the original template may remain, even though they aren't appropriate for the new design. If that happens, simply select them, and then delete them by pressing the Delete key. |
Figure 2-7: Apply a different template to selected slides, if desired.
Using a Content Template as a Design Template
The content templates have their own unique designs, and some of them are pretty interesting. Even if you aren't interested in the sample content, you might want to use some of their designs in your own presentations.
There's one minor glitch with that idea, however: by default, the presentation templates do not show up in the list of designs in the Slide Design pane. Therefore, you'll need to do the following:
Click the Browse hyperlink at the bottom of the Slide Design task pane. The Apply Design Template dialog box opens.
Navigate to this path (assuming C: is the hard disk where Office is installed):
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033
Click one of the presentation designs. A preview of it appears to the right of the list, as shown in Figure 2-8. If it doesn't, click the View button (to the immediate left of Tools) and choose Preview.
Click Apply to apply the presentation template as if it were a design template. You won't get any sample slides-just design attributes.
Figure 2-8: Select a presentation template for use as a design template.
| Note | Why is the folder called 1033? It has to do with international support within Office applications. Items that are country-specific go in folders for that country, and 1033 is the numeric code for United States of America. |
Applying User Templates and Third-Party Templates
Applying templates from other sources is just like applying a content template (see next section to learn more about file locations and what templates to store in what places.
Microsoft is one obvious source of additional templates. At the bottom of the list of templates in the Slide Design task pane is a "Design Templates on Microsoft Office Online" box. Click it to open a Web browser and connect to Microsoft's Office Online Web site, where you can find more templates for free download. There are many third-party sources of templates as well. This book's CD includes several dozen, and you can download many more at both free and pay sites all over the Web.
